"If you love something, set it free..."
My muse's gaze fell upon the vast digital ocean, and so I let 'er go.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Six Sentence Sunday #37

The scene I’m using for SSS describes the wedding of
Neal’s best friend, Sandy, to Sophie. The entire scene is in Neal’s POV.
During the ceremony Neal had some difficulty trying not to think about the
one-night-stand he and Sophie shared. He had a harder time with memories of his
first love, Laurie, who died before he said those three little words “I love
you.”

April
(and Sandy) grew up in Crescent City, Calif. An
important bit of backstory is that although she now lives with Neal in Los
Angeles, she still struggles with unrequited feelings for Sandy. For this
scene, the ceremony took place on a beach; afterward, Neal and April go for a
walk near the water. He’s told her if getting married means a lot to her, he’ll
do it. She called that the most lopsided proposal ever, so he got down on one
knee and asked if she would marry him. She pushed him over. I’m skipping over
his indignant exclamation; he asks why she did that and this is her answer. He’s
stood up by this time.

“You are not asking me that today because you want a
wife. We’re both too emotional for a serious discussion. We need to lighten
up.”

Neal kept brushing his clothes off. Just because some
ass divorced her years ago, now she wanted to push somebody around when they
were at their most vulnerable. “Women . . . son of a bitch.”

Half the fun of SSS is seeing comments on excerpts of your
own work, but the other fun part is seeing the other snippets. There’s a fair
amount of romance in the excerpts though several are not typical at all!
There’s really something to please every reading taste.

The official Six Sentence Sunday is scheduled to end on January 27 and I hope to have enough excerpts to cover those weeks. It's possible another version of SSS will be up in the near future also. I want to thank everybody who has come by my blog and read these excerpts, whether or not you commented. I enjoy visiting other SSSers a lot.Until
next week, happy writing and readingJ